Richard Basehart
Profile info
Known forActing
GenderMale
Birthday31 August 1914
Died17 September 1984 (age 70)
Place of birthZanesville, Ohio, USA
Known credits112
Biography
John Richard Basehart (August 31, 1914 – September 17, 1984) was an American actor. He starred in the 1960s television science fiction drama Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea, in the role of Admiral Harriman Nelson. One of his most notable film roles was the acrobat known as "the Fool" in the acclaimed Italian film La strada directed by Federico Fellini. He also appeared as the killer in the film noir classic He Walked by Night (1948), as a psychotic member of the Hatfield clan in Roseanna McCoy (1949), as Ishmael in Moby Dick (1956), and in the drama Decision Before Dawn (1951). He was married…
The Men Who Made the Movies: Samuel Fuller
2002 · Cpl. Denno (archive footage) (uncredited)
Save the Panda
1983 · Narrator (Voice)
Bix: Ain't None of Them Play Like Him Yet
1982 · Self
Knight Rider: Knight of the Phoenix
1982 · Wilton Knight
Knight Rider
1982 · Wilton Knight
Egypt: Quest for Eternity
1982 · Narrator (Self)
Mr. Merlin
1981
Masada
1981 · Modern-Day Narrator (voice, uncredited)
Marilyn: The Untold Story
1980 · Johnny Hyde
Being There
1979 · Vladimir Skrapinov
Land of Celtic Ghosts
1979 · Himself
The Rebels
1979 · Duke of Kentland
Tales of the Unexpected
1979 · Slade
Planet Mars
1979 · Narrator
The Great Bank Hoax
1978 · Manny Benchly
Vega$
1978
W.E.B.
1978
The Critical List
1978 · Matt Kinsella
A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court
1978 · King Arthur
The Love Boat
1977 · Stan Ellis
The Island of Dr. Moreau
1977 · Sayer of the Law
Flood!
1977 · John Cutler
How the West Was Won
1977 · Colonel Flint
Stonestreet: Who Killed the Centerfold Model?
1977 · Elliott Osborn
21 Hours at Munich
1976 · Willy Brandt
Mansion of the Doomed
1976 · Dr. Leonard Chaney
Time Travelers
1976 · Dr. Joshua Henderson (1871)
Valley Forge
1975 · Gen. Washington
Joe Forrester
1975
Medical Story
1975 · Dr. Charles Galpin
Judgment: The Court Martial of Lt. William Calley
1975 · George Latimer
Little House on the Prairie
1974 · Hannibal Applewood
The First Woman President
1974 · Woodrow Wilson
Maneater
1973 · Carl Brenner
The Birdmen
1973 · Schiller
...and millions will die!
1973 · Dr Douglas Pruitt
Rage
1972 · Dr. Roy Caldwell
The Bounty Man
1972 · Angus Keough
The Streets of San Francisco
1972 · Bishop Tim Farrow
Chato's Land
1972 · Nye Buell
Assignment: Munich
1972 · Maj. Barney Caldwell
The Death of Me Yet
1971 · Robert Barnes
Columbo
1971 · Nicholas Framer
City Beneath the Sea
1971 · The President
They've Killed President Lincoln!
1971 · Host / Narrator
Dan August
1970 · Prof. Theodore Rye
The Andersonville Trial
1970 · Henry Wirz
Sole Survivor
1970 · Brig. Gen. Russell Hamner
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